Unit IV:

Realism and Materialism

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Unit IV Calendar

CNN's Millennium: The Nineteenth Century - The Century of the Machine (Student and Teacher editions of website)

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Chapter 22: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830-1850)

The "important guideposts" for Chapter 22 are:

• Industrialization and its impact on labor and the family.
• The pre-conditions for the Industrial Revolution that occurred in Europe (most notably Britain)
• The changing role of women in industrial society.
• Problems of crime and the response of police forces and prisons.
• The development of socialism and radical reform.
• The revolutions of 1848.

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 22 (Companion website page)

Class assignments/notes:

• Primary Source accounts (along with a short history) of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution
• Swift's A Modest Proposal (1729) - satire alert!
• Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

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Chapter 23: The Age of Nation-States

The "important guideposts" for Chapter 23 are:

• The unification of Germany and Italy.
• The shift from the Second Empire to the Third Republic in France.
• The emergence of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
• Russian political and social reforms, including emancipation of the serfs.
• British liberalism and the confrontation with Irish nationalists over the Irish Question.

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 23 (Companion website page)

Class assignments/notes:

• Transition to the 20th century web assignment

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Chapter 24: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I

The "important guideposts" for Chapter 24 are:

• The impact of the Second Industrial Revolution.
• Urban development programs, including sanitation systems and housing reform.
• The condition of women and the rise of political feminism.
• The development of political socialism and the entry of workers into politics.
• Rising unrest and disorder in Russia, including the Revolution of 1905 and the Russo-Japanese War.

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 24 (Companion website page)

Class assignments/notes:

• Ellis' The Cult of Domesticity: A System of Middle-Class Values and Social Duties (1838)

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Chapter 25: The Birth of Modern European Thought

The "important guideposts" for Chapter 25 are:

• The dominance of scientific thought in this era.
• The conflict between church and state and church and science, particularly over education.
• The impact of modernism, psychoanalysis, and the New Physics on intellectual life.
• The rise of nationalistically inspired scientific racism and the resurgence of anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews).
• The laying of the foundations for 20th-century feminism.

Corresponding chapters:

• Kagan Chapter 25 (Companion website page)

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Class assignments/notes: